GREECE. 



J>rs. l.mu. 



8. Produce of national property ,78.800 



4. I'ul.h.- .-. -rvicu 1,104,800 



.1. IV.itU 7(10,000 



I:. l.-l.xr:ipUS 400,000 



,-. I'rmliiiK-offlce 4,800 



I'nutional pro|>erty 8,0s5,000 



. Miscellaneous receipt* l,0!fi,700 



Miintical recolpU #04,000 



b. Arrears 1,610,000 



Total revenue 88,820,800 



The expenditures were estimated as follows : 



DnwhmM. 



1. Interest on foreign debt 1,258,000 



Interest on Internal debt 6,4S5,4!W 



J. IViifsions 8,o7o.xio 



. Civil list 1,125,000 



4. Salaries of deputies 46o.iHHi 



6. l>ei>artineut of Finance 1,884,240 



6. Foreign Affairs 1,162,78 



7. " Justice 8,091,782 



8. " Interior 4,777.477 



9. V orship and Education 2,106,410 



10. War 7,4f,i.:.iM) 



11. " Marine 1,'J.VJ,S90 



18. Cost of general administration 2,847,450 



18. Miscellaneous expenditures 1,985,000 



Total 89,068,841 



The actual budgets of the kingdom differ, 

 however, widely from the budget estimates. 

 Since the establishment of Greece as an inde- 

 pendent kingdom, there have been few finan- 

 cial terms without a deficit. 



The foreign debt, according to Mollet (in 

 reports by his Majesty's secretaries of embassy 

 and legation, 1875), amounted, at the close of 

 1874, to 335,500,000 drachmas ; the home debt, 

 to 94,000,000: total debt, 430,100,000. 



The army of the kingdom is formed by con- 

 scription, with the general privilege to procure 

 substitutes, which is done to a very large ex- 

 tent. The strength of the army on the peace- 

 footing was, according to the budget of 1876, 

 12,188 men with 636 horses; on the war-foot- 

 ing the army numbers 29,684 men, with 50 

 guns. 



The navy, in f875, consisted of 2 iron-clad 

 frigates, 1 royal yacht, 8 screw -steamers, and 

 10 sailing-vessels. 



The general commerce, in 1874, was as fol- 

 lows, in drachmas : 



The movement of shipping, in 1873 and 1874, 

 is shown by the following table : 



The merchant navy, on December 81, 1874, 

 consisted of 5,202 vessel*, of 250,077 teas; 

 among them there were 2o steamers, of ul<nit 

 0,048 tons, uud 4,097 sailing-vessels, of 42,- 

 877 tons. 



Greece had, in 1875, only one railroad in 

 operation. It connects Athens with the ports 

 of I'ir.Tus and Phalerutn, was opened in 1869, 

 and is 12 kilometres long (1 kilometre = 0.61 

 mile). The aggregate length of the electric 

 telegraph-lines is 1,600 kilometres ; that of the 

 wires, 1,800 kilometres. 



The Chamber of Deputies, after having dis- 

 posed of forty-three out of one hundred and 

 four of the bills brought before it by the Gov- 

 ernment, was adjourned by the King early in 

 February, because a quorum could not be ob- 

 tained. On the 22d of April King George 

 with his family departed from Athens to visit 

 his native land, Denmark, and the other coun- 

 tries of Europe. Many speculations were in- 

 dulged in as to the object of his visit and its 

 probable duration. Some professed to think 

 that he would not return, or that his return 

 would be made conditional upon certain alter- 

 ations being made in the constitution. Min- 

 ister-President Kumunduros was credited with 

 the remark that the country would prove, while 

 he and his fellow-ministers conducted the Gov- 

 ernment in the absence of his Majesty, how 



PLAN OF ATHENS AND THB POBT TOWNS. 



well it could do without the King. After the 

 departure of the King the minister addressed 

 a circular to the departmental prefects, in 

 which he referred to the quiet which pn-v.-iiK-d 

 throughout the country, and expressed the hope 

 that, even in the existing precarious state of 

 foreign affairs, the peace of the nation would 

 be preserved; for in the Eastern question the 

 Government would pursue a policy friendly to 

 Turkey. This circular was also sent out to 

 the Greek representatives in foreign countries. 

 It seems to have had a wholesome effect on 

 the mind of the Turkish Government, for the 

 Porte expressed a willingness to proceed to 

 the solution of the questions of difference ex- 

 isting between it and the Greek Government, 



